Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 Libro bianco
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Most companies, whether small, medium sized, or large, spend large sums of
money outsourcing the management and maintenance of remote edge devices such
as desktops at branch offices, point-of-sale systems, and remote data collection
points. What if you could deploy enterprise-class unified computing, networking,
storage, and virtualization resources and then manage those network-attached
systems, regardless of where they are located, from your data center with the exact
same software you use to manage your Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure within
your data center?
money outsourcing the management and maintenance of remote edge devices such
as desktops at branch offices, point-of-sale systems, and remote data collection
points. What if you could deploy enterprise-class unified computing, networking,
storage, and virtualization resources and then manage those network-attached
systems, regardless of where they are located, from your data center with the exact
same software you use to manage your Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure within
your data center?
Start with Cisco UCS Mini
If you are a Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) customer, you already
know about infrastructure automation. Cisco UCS helps you manage growing
administrative costs and rein in increasing complexity while reducing costs and
increasing agility with:
• Automated, role- and policy-based provisioning of the system’s computing and
know about infrastructure automation. Cisco UCS helps you manage growing
administrative costs and rein in increasing complexity while reducing costs and
increasing agility with:
• Automated, role- and policy-based provisioning of the system’s computing and
connectivity resources: Cisco UCS Manager is model based, with Cisco UCS
service profiles and service profile templates dictating server identity, personality,
and configuration.
service profiles and service profile templates dictating server identity, personality,
and configuration.
• Single, unified, self-aware and self-integrating system that eliminates the manual,
time-consuming, and error-prone server configuration process: With these
intelligent processes, Cisco UCS reduces administrative costs and shortens the
time to value.
intelligent processes, Cisco UCS reduces administrative costs and shortens the
time to value.
Solution Brief
April 2015
Highlights
Put Performance Where It’s Needed
• Maintain performance and reduce
costs with Cisco UCS® Mini.
Manage Infrastructure Worldwide
• Manage Cisco UCS infrastructure
anywhere in the world with Cisco UCS
Central Software.
Lower Operating Costs
• Lower operating costs with
comprehensive infrastructure
automation, orchestration, and
management with Cisco UCS
Director.
Close Tool Integration
• Cisco UCS Director is tightly
integrated with Cisco UCS Manager
and Cisco UCS Central Software.